So basically if I ignored all impacts of using it I would be ok with it as a first pass at some sort of information gathering if I was willing to check deeper.

When I used it, I asked things like “change the tone of this writing” or “make these bullet points include key words to match this job post”.

That said, it does have impacts and I’m not willing to incur them for my passing curiosities or to speed up job applications.

One of my hobbies seems like it should be be easy for AI to move into. Crochet patterns are often fairly mathematically based. However every generated pattern I’ve looked at has been nonsensical garbage. Images that look cute and plausible at first pass are basically imagination. It used to be really easy to spot but it is getting harder/more subtle.

I used to work in healthcare and when I first got access to chat GPT I asked it some simple differential diagnosis questions. It gave a few very common possibilities for the symptoms I gave but completely ignore an important red flag that even a first year med student should (probably would) keep in mind.

There’s a bunch of people who are weirdly fascinated by a particular piece of hold music. I think Kaiser used to use it. NPR searched out the composer and I have a file of the whole thing.

This is actually a great thought experiment. Some philosopher (I forget the details) suggested that a culture/society could be judged how willing people would be to take the place of any random person within it. Like when people are like “American culture peaked in the 20s/50s/etc”, but you can point out that only counts if you’re a white man. The experience of pretty much everyone else is unenviable for a multitude of reasons.

You’re suggesting that yeah there may be some positions that are better than others, but pretty much any of them would be good.

I have two photo books from high school, so maybe 30 pictures of me and friends or family from then. There’s a bit of a gap due to using poor back up practices. Recently I’ve been having a book of pictures printed to save the highlights of my year. I’m not naturally a picture taker so knowing I want to have pictures for “the book” has been a bit of a motivator.

The last two years, I’ve also gathered photos of my nephew and made a similar book which runs from birthday to birthday for him.

I always took it as a compliment when older people in my life wanted to set me up. Like they enjoyed me enough to add me to their family?

Fair. It was the California Bay Area

That still feels on the low end. It’s what I paid for my photos in 2018 and I got a friends rate.

The article I saw on Med Page stating that Noah Wylie had been accepted to med school. Plausible enough for a double take.

Your brother may either enjoy or hate a movie called The Night House.

I also grew up in a mountainous valley and am unsettled by distant flat horizons.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22945909

But I agree with askewLord, it’s fine to prefer to be alone. It’s fine to prefer it just because it’s your preference or because there’s no good matches for you around.

My guess is that your roommate finds you admirable and thinks that you probably ought to be in a relationship more than a lot of other people.

My round of CBT gave me specific tools to use in particular situations which immensely helped me. I wonder about how complete yours was if you didn’t get more than “insights”.

That said for me, CBT was a necessary first step, but I needed other types to unwind and address some of my influences. I actually benefited most from somatic therapy personally

Honestly the last few cities I’ve lived in I’ve found it a fun thing to have “tourist day” and see all the “highlights” of the place.

If I have to choose one, the architecture tour by river boat in Chicago guided by someone who is clearly deeply nerdy about architecture (told us about city planning meetings) was pretty stellar.

This is some really good advice. People can learn more about some of these ideas by searching for conversational threading.

Unnatural, no.

If you can figure out how to make it medically safe, you would still make a ton of NPO patients happier.

Second Hand Lions

The Night House